Shares and the stockmarket

In early October, while on a trip to the USA, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond announced that the Government would again try to sell...

A series of drops in US oil inventories and the announcement that OPEC’s late-September Algerian summit could lead to production cuts are boosting the oil...

Taken in aggregate, profit and dividend forecasts can give a feel for whether one equity market looks cheap or expensive relative to another, or relative...

The £24.3 billion, cash only acquisition of UK microchip designer ARM by Japan's Softbank was officially sealed on 5th September, removing a high quality technology...

Any investors who followed the old market maxim “Sell In May” will be cursing, as equity, bond and commodity markets generally look and feel bouncy...

A swathe of post-Brexit vote property fund suspensions in June and July frayed the nerves of investors, with some commentators drawing doomsday comparisons with the...

It took the best part of 14 months but America’s S&P 500 benchmark equity index finally set a new all-time high this month while US...

Equities have already endured some wild swings in the wake of the shock ‘Leave’ vote in the EU referendum and market conditions could remain choppy...

In the past fortnight or so, a number of open-ended commercial property funds available on the AJ Bell Youinvest platform have suspended trading, instituted fair...

When questioned about the implications of the volatility witnessed in stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and even property over the past two weeks, this column continues...